Chapter Forty-two. Was I not good enough for her?King Ace's POVTalking to her and trying to convince her to be mine didn’t seem to work. She insisted that she needed peace. If so, then why couldn't she find her peace staying beside me? Was I that much of a chaos?She was being too cruel. Her persistent rejection left me with no choice but to threaten her with her friend. I knew treating her like that could make her hate me even more but I had no choice. I had to make her stay with me. I had to convince her to, one way or the other. It didn't matter the least to me if everyone in her Pack slept with her. It was all in the past and I shouldn't pay attention to it.I needed a future with her. I needed her beside me, as my queen and the mother of my unborn pups. Her past shouldn't matter and it didn't. I was ready to overlook all that messiness and love her right.Why wouldn't she let me? Why was it so hard for her to give me a chance? Why was she hellbent on testing the limit of my p

Chapter Forty-four. I will treat you right.King Ace's POVAn hour later but I was still not over Kate's visit. It wasn't rocket science that she had deep feelings for me. But I never thought she could go this far when she knew I had a mate. Now I was all shades of disappointed by her actions. I expected better. ‘We should have killed her,’ Klaus urged. He developed quite the hate for her ever since he knew she had a crush on me. But I could never hurt Kate. Not in the way he wanted.'I can't kill her and you know that.' I replied, with a puff.‘Why not? I can smell her greed. She wants to be the queen.’'Maybe, you're right. I should have killed her, but that would make mother sad. You know how close she was to her. I don’t wanna do anything to hurt mother.’‘I understand, but next time she tries this, I'll cripple her.’‘Do as you wish. She isn’t my mate.’ I concurred and that pacified Klaus.I let myself get lost in my work for the remaining working hours. By the time I finished,

Chapter Forty-six. HeartbeatIvanna's POVMy heart pounded monstrously against my chest. I wasn't sure what was wrong with me, or what just came over me. Why was my body acting up at the sight of him? Or was it because of my recent wet dreams about him?Those dreams had more erotic pleasure than all the times I've been raped and fucked. They might be dreams but everything in them felt so real. The way he touched me; the things he did with his lips; with his hands; they were all mindblowing and crazy too, but I loved them.I always woke up extremely wanton and aching for more. With all those lewd images in my head, it was hard to stay close to him or meet his gaze, and that was why I tried not to. I was always running or being aggressive. All of that was my defensive mechanism, to keep him away from realizing the real effects he had on me. How shamelessly wet I got just from our little encounters in my dreams. Opening up to his mother and him yesterday was a bold move for me. Talking

Chapter Forty- Eight. Her ex-loverKing Ace's POV"I'm okay. I already told you that. I’ll be fine after a little rest," she said, right after cutting the doctor off. "I know that but I wanna make sure that you're a hundred percent fine," I replied, turning to the Pack's doctor. He seemed in some kind of daze, glancing back and forth at me and Ivanna. "Are you sure she's okay? Or is there something you're hiding from me?"With the way she cut him off, it was clear she was hiding something. And his silence showed he was trying to help her cover whatever it was up. I needed to know what they were trying to hide. It could be life threatening and I'd be damned if anything happened to her on my watch. "No, Alpha. The queen is perfectly healthy."I wasn’t conceived so I had to mindlink him.'David,' Calling him by his name was as casual as I could be to get him comfortable enough to speak. 'Yes, Alpha?''Tell me, what's wrong with her?’ ‘Nothing serious, my king. I just noticed her he

Chapter Fifty. Cheating.Ivanna's POV"It’s okay, Ivan," Jenny said after I was calm. "You should have tried to stay cool until you've spoken to him about it. What if that crazy bitch was lying to you?""She wasn’t lying, Jenny. I sniffed up his scent on her. How do you explain that?""Well, maybe he got closer to her but that doesn't mean they did anything…""Stop defending him, Jenny. We both know I'm right. He's cheating. He's having an affair with that slut.""Hmmm," she sighed. "Forgive me for insisting, but what if she lied to you? It's possible.""I told you already, she didn't! Why are you so fixed on defending him? Why are you trying to excuse his sick, disgusting actions?""I'm not trying to excuse his actions. I'm just trying to be sure that he did what you're accusing him of."“I don’t know when you started questioning my words. I don’t care if you side with him or not. All I know is that he's sleeping with her. He's been avoiding me for weeks now. He doesn't pay attention